ConocoPhillips upstream unit to boost output

Increase: soon-to-be ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance lays out production plans for upstream spinoff

ConocoPhillips' soon-to-be spun-off exploration and production arm aims to increase production volume by 3% to 5% annually, the chief executive of what will be the largest independent upstream company in the US told analysts on Monday.

That production growth "will take us to over 1.8 million barrels per day by 2016," said Ryan Lance, who will head the spinoff company but now leads international exploration and production for the integrated supermajor.

ConocoPhillips expects 2012 output of the spinoff to be 1.55 million to 1.6 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, Reuters reported.

ConocoPhillips will spin off its refining, marketing and transportation arm at the end of April into a company called Phillips 66, to create separate pure-play upstream and downstream companies. Lance was named in October to run the new independent producer.

Lance told analysts that…

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